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The Emporium, from 1880 to 1995 Emporium-Capwell, was a mid-line department store chain headquartered in San Francisco, California, which operated for 100 years—from 1896 to 1996. The flagship location on San Francisco's Market Street was a destination shopping location for decades, and several branch stores operated in the various suburbs of ...
The San Francisco Comfort Women memorial and its bronze, 10-foot-tall "Comfort Women" Column of Strength statue were unveiled on September 22, 2017. [7] The memorial statue was designed by the Carmel-based sculptor Steven Whyte.
The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians. [1] Although polychrome decoration was common in the Victorian era, the colors used on these houses are not based on historical precedent. [2]
When her daughter was denied admission to a public school in San Francisco because she was Chinese, Mary Tape refused to accept such discriminatory treatment. According to Elaine Kim, a professor in Asian American studies at the University of California-Berkeley, Tape waged a campaign for Chinese children's access to public education , and even ...
From Harper's Pictorial History of the War ... to the original Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1901{{center| ... woman and child, San Francisco (ca. 1870 - 1889) ...
Williams was the creator and producer of the first Miss Black San Francisco pageants in 1977, 1978, and 1979 to recognize the beauty of African American women. Her relationships with young single mothers of the southeastern community of Bayview Hunters Point, illuminated the need for more self-esteem and self-empowerment of young black women.
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
The Women's Building is a women-led non-profit arts and education community center located in San Francisco, California. The center advocates self-determination, gender equality and social justice. [2] The four-story building rents to multiple tenants and serves more than 20,000 women a year. [3] [4] The building has served as an event and ...